disagree RE last great Costello record... the Delivery Man is an absolute killer. The River in Reverse also excellent, though a collab with the late great Allen Toussaint. Momofuku is solid.
the tracks he produced on Jenny Lewis's album made me hope for a return to form Beck album. i love Sea Change and thought Morning Phase was decent, but i never actually listened to Colors because the singles i heard from it made me cringe.
I LOVE Little Creatures. might be nostalgic memories of sitting in comfy chair with my dad listening to this when i was 4 or 5 and it had just come out. My love of Talking Heads spread out from there, but i admit to not having given True Stories and Naked much time. 77 thru 85 is filled with A+ stuff.
Big Blue>2021>Harmony Hall>Sunflower.
was very skeptical on first listen of Sunflower, but i can dig it. I'd like to point out that the acoustic version of Rostam's "In a River" contains some very Jammy instrumentation and vibes, too. Some guitar licks in there that are very much on the same wavelength as Sunflower and Harmony Hall.
well, no problem. i was just confused that no one else around here seemed to pick up on the Barnett similarity. i am absolutely loving these Voidz tracks. i have mixed emotions about Tyranny. on one level i really love it and was surprised by the muted reaction here and in the wild. on the other hand, i find some of the textures so grating and unpleasant to listen to that i don't reach for it that often, even if underneath those textures there is some great music that i really dig.
Agree re not exactly what I expected from the description. Like, I honestly don't know what little Wayne sounds like, but I doubt he sounds exactly like Courtney Barnett, which is what Julian sounds like in that passage.
maybe he meant 30k/year? that would be more reasonable. so either he misspoke about 30k over the last 4 years, or he doesn't seem to understand that $7500 a year is not paying bills for most folks.
http://www.newsweek.com/how-cds-have-been-supplanted-music-streaming-588819 OK so i was way off on numbers. obviously americans are spending less per person on music. but i still assume smaller artists are disproportionately affected by the shift.
i'm sure there are some things i don't understand about all this, but seems to me the price of these services are about the price of 1 cd per month (maybe a little less). so the total amount of money collected is let's say the equivalent of every subscriber buying 11 albums per year. is that really that much less than the amount of money collected before streaming? or even before digital music? i mean, according to the industry it must be. i would guess that streaming heavily favors huge pop stars (i'd say taylor swift but she seems to keep her stuff off the streaming services). i don't know who the biggest streaming artists are, but i bet they make much more from streaming than they would have from cd sales, while smaller artists make much less from streaming than from cd sales. i suppose that is a kind of democratization of the music industry, more individual listens equals more of the pie, but it also results in watering down of quality product and maybe more reason not to take chances as an artist.
mmm.. instead of watching election results roll in last night bought all the radiohead b-sides that weren't already in my collection. i suspect a deep dive back into the catalog is going to dominate my music listening for a while.
so stereogum, rollingstone, billboard, cos, and like every site on the internet all have a link to listen to a new radiohead song from some voice memo site called vocaroo? and a dead soundcloud link? both dead now, so obviously not sanctioned. i love radiohead and i want to hear the song. i don't want to buy their super deluxe version. what happened to the band who said pay what you want? I'll happily pay them the going rate for a song, hell maybe even slightly more since it's radiohead, but this exclusive deluxe stuff in the music world needs to end. fuck exclusive streams, and fuck deluxe editions, if you have outtakes you want to share with the world release a fucking ep that i can pay you for.
i'm sure there is more to this than i understand, but if that's the tree and that's the Tomei's stoop, how is that tree on his property and not theirs?
i guess i'm old. i started college in 1999 (don't remember exactly when i finished). i bought lots of cds in college. not to say i didn't occasionally download some stuff, but for the most part i paid for music. i digitized my catalog around 2006 or 7. now, when i use spotify, it's to check out something new that i'm on the fence about. then i buy if i like, don't if not. i still pay for the vast majority of the music i listen to. i'm not interested in using spotify in the car, i use a usb plugged straight into the deck. i just don't have good experiences streaming over my phone. nothing worse than being into a song and it stutters and loads.... I have about the best internet i can get at home, but when i stream, there are still more interruptions than i can stomach. if they take away some music (especially new releases) from the free option it neuters the service for my uses.
12 Bar Blues is one of my all time favorite overlooked albums. if you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen. also after having listened to the first couple albums a million times as a teen in the 90's, i'm as likely now to put on Shangri-La Dee Da as any of the others. Some good stuff there.
Agreed, though disc 3 of Vol. 8 is magnificent. i admit i don't have time for 6 (or 18!!) discs of multiple takes of this material but that 18th disc looks enticing. I'm still waiting for an installment of live never-ending-tour material circa the early 2000's.
so i keep seeing clips of this on the news and whatnot. it was clearly professionally filmed. anybody know if it is going to air someplace or if we're gonna get to see any of it?
it's a pretty good performance, but it would be really great with a better vocal performance. not super familiar with Foxygen, so i don't know if the singer is capable of better...
probably more because of the pointy polygon bosom that "lanky boy" has. I'd be equally happy either way, but unless that guy is wearing both a shirt-dress AND falsies, i think it's a lady...
I know I may be in the minority, but i just never understood how Arthur is often regarded as the best of the Kinks. whenever i hear that said, i go back and listen again. i always think, yeah, better than i remember, but no way the best Kinks album. l listen to everything from Kinda Kinks through Muswell quite often and for me Kinda and Kontroversy handily beat out Face to Face and Arthur. The expanded versions of Kinda and Kontroversy do benefit quite a bit from the added singles/EP tracks tacked on.
it was kind of a strange read. what with all the "it must be crumby to have people always talk about you being a girl, so I'll just do that for a while."
on the other hand, I'm not sure it's wrong to talk about a musician as physically attractive or beautiful. i think david bowie and trent reznor are physically attractive and beautiful, and i feel the same about annie clark. i think attractiveness and sexuality are often part of the allure of an artist.
if annie were a man, i'd say, "wow, this guy makes great music. i've never heard anyone do things with a guitar like that." if she were a really good looking and graceful man i'd say something closer to "he's not of this world," like this author (or their friend) did. i think that's ok.
reminds me a bit of the aphex twin remix of bowie/glass heroes. I'd love to hear more tracks from the era with the vox pulled way out front like this. wonderful.
http://nin.thisoneisonus.org/node/2
fan edits of LITS las vegas (fan footage) and "the gift (pro shot footage, soundboard audio). both are really good. this is a great release. free downloads, don't know if they have physical copies left to purchase (not for profit). the NIN community is so awesome.
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